Almost everyone has heard of Florence Nightingale, but the Crimean War produced another nurse worthy of note. The mixed race daughter of a Scottish soldier and a traditional native healer, Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. She shared her mother’s interest in medicine, but also liked travel, and combined […]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The above poster didn’t really appear on walls and trees back in the fifteenth century, and the fleeing urchin article wasn’t really in any of the London newspapers back in Victorian Times, but kids can have fun this summer creating ‘historical’ posters, newspapers, and other documents. The ones featured relate to […]